Step-by-Step Guide to Make Perfect "Sweet Steamed Tilapia (cichlid fish) with Sweet and Sour Sauce"

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The ingredients needed to make "Sweet Steamed Tilapia (cichlid fish) with Sweet and Sour Sauce":

1. Make ready Ingredients
2. Take 1 or 1/2 kls - your own choice fish or Tilapia (cichlid fish)
3. Make ready 1 pc - ginger
4. Prepare 1 tbsp - oil
5. Prepare Sauce
6. Get 200 ml - water
7. Prepare 1 cup - vinegar (for the sour taste)
8. Prepare 1/2 cup - sugar (for sweetened)
9. Get 1 tbsp - soy sauce
10. Prepare 1 to 2 cup - ketchup (for the red color of the sauce and for the taste)
11. Prepare 1 Salt and Black pepper to taste..
12. Make ready 1 Tip: you can use CORNSTARCH for your desired thickening… (dissolve into small amount of water before mixing to the sauce)

Instructions to make "Sweet Steamed Tilapia (cichlid fish) with Sweet and Sour Sauce":

1. Preheat your oven at 250°c.
2. In a baking dish marinate the fish with salt and pepper, add the oil and ginger (ginger helps to remove the "Lansa" or stench or taste of the fish). Put in the pre-heated oven.
3. While waiting for the fish to cook, we will make now the sauce. In a sauce pan add the water, vinegar, and the sugar mix it with wire whisk until the sugar dissolve into the mixture, add now the soy sauce, then the ketchup (balance the taste of the sauce by adding Gradually the ketchup) and season with salt and pepper for better taste.
4. You can use Cornstarch for thickening for your desired sauce.

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